“‘No, no!ʹ continued Tennessee’s partner, hastily, ‘Iʹll play this yer hand alone. Iʹve come down to the bed-rock; it’s just this: Tennessee, thar, has played it pretty rough and expensive, like, on a stranger… Now what’s the fair thing? Some would saymore, and some would say less. Here’s seventeen hundred dollars in coarse gold and a watch—it’s about all my pile—and call it square.ʹ”—Bret Harte: Tennessee’s Partner.